What should you do if you are contemplating suicide?

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Suicide Help Numbers

There are people you can call for assistance.

• In the US you can call 1-800-784-2433 (toll-free)
• In the UK you can call 08457 90 90 90 (local rate call)
• In CANADA you can call the toll free Hotline 1-800-448-3000 . TTY - National Hotline 1-800-448-1833
  
• In Ireland you can call 1850 60 90 90
• In Australia you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 (local call)
• In Australia you can call the special Kids Help Line on 1800 55 1800 (toll-free)

If you or someone near you is considering killing themselves,

• call 911 in the USA
• 999 in the UK
• 112 in Europe and UK

or the emergency number for the country you are in, right now, and tell them that.
 

Worldwide Online Help

Visit one of the Suicide help sites. The following sites also have direct toll free numbers in the United States and worldwide:

• http:/psychcentral.com/helpme.htm

This site lets you find a phone number in your own country:

• http:/www.befrienders.org/support/helplines.asp

In Canada this site will locate the nearest Provincial help center to you with phone numbers and online links.

• http://www.casp-acps.ca/crisiscentres.asp

Please talk to a counselor about your problem. You should go to the nearest emergency room if you perceive immediate need or urgency.

If you are at the point where you really feel it's better to die than to go on living, then you have hit bottom, and once you hit bottom, there's really no place else to go but up. So what have you got to lose by staying for the ride back up? You have far, far more to gain by going up, and absolutely nothing to lose by taking that trip back up, to the place where your life can be happy and fulfilling.

If your life is at a place where suicide seems better than going on, think about some very important things. Life can turn from horrible to wonderful in a very short period of time. Your life, whether you know it today or not, has a positive impact on someone. It might be your family, your friends, your co-workers, your neighbors... there is someone that knows you in a way that you can't see.

Suicide is permanent... there's no turning back. The deep feelings you have today will be different tomorrow; regardless of how down you feel, you'll have something tomorrow that can, if you let it, make you feel better. Our problems are often so great, so real and feel so devastating that leaving life behind seems like the only answer. But it's not an answer. It leaves many, many questions for anyone we leave.

Please sleep. Please cry hard, if you must, and talk to someone who loves you. But please, also, put the idea of making a permanent end to what could be temporary problems out of your head. Every life has purpose. Every single life. Please try to find yours before thinking about killing yourself.

Please call your suicide hotline immediately and speak to someone who will understand and listen.

National Suicide Hotlines USA
United States of America
Toll-Free / 24 hours a day / 7 days a week
1-800-SUICIDE
1-800-273-TALK
1-800-799-4TTY (4889) Deaf Hotline

In the UK you can call 08457 90 90 90

In Ireland you can call 1850 60 90 90

In Australia you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 (local call)

In Australia you can call Kids Help Line on 1800 55 1800 (toll-free)
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